Size and The City: Productivity, Match Quality and Wage Inequality
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Keywords
Urban Wage Premium; Match Quality; Job Match;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2011-06-11 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-EFF-2011-06-11 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-GEO-2011-06-11 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-URE-2011-06-11 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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